Cameras at War (ePub)
Photo Gear that Captured 100 Years of Conflict – From Crimea to Korea
Imprint: Pen & Sword Military
File Size: 17.3 MB (.epub)
Illustrations: 260 black and white illustrations
ISBN: 9781526760111
Published: 7th July 2020
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Books about war and the pictures that came out of conflict usually concentrate on the picture content. But behind every picture there is a camera – and that’s what this book is about. Profusely illustrated throughout with pictures of the cameras, rather than the pictures they took, it looks at 100 years of conflict from the Crimean War to the Korean War. It begins in the days when a photographer needed to be more of a scientist than an artist, such were the difficulties of shooting and processing any photograph. It ends with the cameras whose compact dimensions, versatility and ease of use meant that photographers could largely forget the science and concentrate on the art. Some cameras simply recorded events. Others defined and changed the way those events proceeded. These were the cameras that went to war, and this is their story.
If cameras and military history is your thing, then this is the book for you.
Gallipoli Association
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Interesting and useful documentation with a special reserved position in my library.
Miniaturas JM
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Whether you can trust an enthusiast's review of such a thing, I don't know, but as I guess I'm the target market and I've just read it in a morning (while smugly noting the mentioned models I possess... as you do) & will definitely refer to it again, then I think it's probably hit its mark.
WW2 Talk
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This book is a comprehensive study of 100 years of development and use of cameras to record conflict and to support military operations. The development of combat photography during 100 years of conflict is impressive, with the quality of resilient film stock supported a rapid expansion of war photography. – Most Highly Recommended
Firetrench
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... an interesting book.
The Armourer, January 2021
Review by Martyn Boyd
Ulster Aviation Society
A thoroughly enjoyable and informative book. Full of technical details about the cameras but not in an overly dry, text book way. Personally I’d have liked to know more about certain of the cameras, how they were deployed etc but that’s for my further reading. It’s a very good comprehensive account of the subject and I recommend it.
As a keen military historian and photographer I found this fascinating on so many counts. It doesn't bring the story right up to the present day but I think it is helpful to look back over the 100 years of camera development between the Crimean and Korean Wars.
Military Model Scene, Robin Buckland
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Hertfordshire Life, October 2020
A fascinating read that I got through in no time at all. If you are at all interested in some of the more obscure aspects of military history, or the history of photography, I would highly recommend this book.
Iron Mammoth
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A former editor of the UK magazine Photography, John Wade has written numerous books and articles on photographic and social history. Cameras at War contains clear and concise writing and excellent illustrations of cameras, accessories, and even vintage advertising.
Jerry Cleveland, History in Motion, September issue
This is an amazing collection of superb photograophs beginning with some from the Crimean War - coupled with a brilliant narrative that emphasises the use of photography to record conflict. Where would we be without such evidentiary mementoes?
Books Monthly
About John Wade
John Wade is a freelance writer and photographer, with more than forty years’ experience in both fields. He has written, illustrated, edited and contributed to more than thirty books, plus numerous magazine articles, for book and magazine publishers in the UK, US and Australia. His specialities are social history as well as photographic history and techniques. His most recent books include Transport Curiosities (Pen & Sword, 2022), Cameras at War (Pen & Sword, 2020); The Golden Age of Science Fiction (Pen & Sword, 2019), London Curiosities (Pen & Sword, 2017), and The Ingenious Victorians (Pen & Sword, 2016).
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